Power plant · Fareham, England, United Kingdom

Newlands Farm Battery Storage Facility Phase 2

Newlands Farm Battery Storage Facility Phase 2 is a battery storage plant in Fareham, England, United Kingdom, with 40 MW of capacity, operated by British Solar Renewables.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Fareham (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Newlands Farm, PO14 1BL	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2022	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	26 Jan 2021 (permit P/20/1562/FP, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Fareham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	14 Dec 2020 (reference P/20/1562/FP, planning authority Fareham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	26 Jan 2021 (granted, reference P/20/1562/FP, planning authority Fareham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	British Solar Renewables	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	40 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Battery (stand-alone storage)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.8332, -1.1885	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

1 Sept 2022Commissioned
26 Jan 2021Permit granted (planning authority Fareham, reference P/20/1562/FP)
14 Dec 2020Permit applied for (planning authority Fareham, reference P/20/1562/FP)

How it compares

Newlands Farm Battery Storage Facility Phase 2 is the 533rd-largest of 4,036 power plants in England and the 875th-largest of 5,837 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 40 MW is <0.1% of the 200,833 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	533rd of 4,036	134,406 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	875th of 5,837	200,833 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,787th of 13,028	1,354,089 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2022Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 204 grid connections (118 operating, 1,025 MW), 162 substations, 8 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Fareham Solar 3 grid connection	Grid connection	24 MW	Planned	0.1 km
Newlands Farm grid connection	Grid connection	49.9 MW	Planned	0.2 km
Fareham (Main) BSP	Substation	—	—	0.7 km
Fareham (Reserve) BSP	Substation	—	—	0.7 km
Hoeford Primary	Substation	—	—	0.7 km
Newlands Farm grid connection	Grid connection	16.7 MW	Operating	1.2 km
ServerHouse	Data center	—	—	2.3 km
Serverhouse	Data center	—	—	5.6 km
Astrohouse	Data center	—	—	5.6 km

Operator and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Newlands Farm grid connection49.9 MW

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